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President Trump will sign an executive order to reverse the Obama administration’s moves to limit greenhouse gases — especially ones that cut into coal mining. We tell you what you need to know about the 39-year-old who could become France’s next president. And Canada is planning on legalizing recreational marijuana by July 1, 2018.

President Trump will sign an executive order on Tuesday, stopping the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to limit power plants burning coal.

The sweeping executive order will start a review that halts the EPA’s plan and orders federal agencies to ignore climate change’s costs — rising seas, heat waves, drought, ocean acidification, and other calamities — in their regulatory calculations.

“We are going to put our coal miners back to work,” Trump said at a rally in Louisville, Kentucky, last week. He promised his “Energy Independence” executive order would “turn the EPA from a job-killer into a job-creator.”

The US coal industry, however, is dying regardless of anything Trump does, said industry experts, with fewer than 100,000 jobs now largely concentrated in Appalachian states.

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Top Democrats in Congress are demanding House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunesrecuse himself from an investigation into Russian interference in the election and possible ties to Trump aides.

The committee’s ranking Democrat, Rep. Adam Schiff of California, called for the recusal on Monday amid revelations Nunes had met an intelligence source at the White House, raising questions about whether he can be an impartial leader of the investigation.

The US’s inability to determine the massive damage its strike caused during a key battle against ISIS is the latest example showing that, short of independent observers on the ground, there is no way to know how many civilians have died because of coalition strikes in the war against the militant group.

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Here’s what you need to know about Emmanuel Macron, the 39-year-old who could be France’s next president.

Voters will go to the polls on April 23 for the first round of the election. Macron is pretty happy right now because he's doing well in the polls.

being neither left nor right politically (but also not in the center, at the top, or at the bottom).

being married to his former French teacher (she’s 63, he’s 39).

being the youngest of the 11 presidential candidates.

his particularly impassioned speech at a December campaign rally, when he became a meme after urging supporters to carry on his “PROJEEEECCTT.”

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QUICK THINGS TO KNOW

Brexit: The mayor of London has urged politicians in the European Union not to “punish” Britain for the decision to leave, saying a “bad Brexit” would hurt the EU too.

Health: A 44-year-long study has found no increased lifetime cancer risk in women who used the birth control pill, compared with women who never did. The pill can also lead to a lower risk of several cancers, including colorectal, endometrial, and ovarian cancers.

Business: Every new robot added to an American factory in recent decades reduced employment in the surrounding area by 6.2 workers, according to a new study.